eBook For Debating Surrogacy (Debating Ethics) 1st Edition By Anca Gheaus

eBook For Debating Surrogacy (Debating Ethics) 1st Edition By Anca Gheaus

This eBook talks about surrogacy and the ethical questions around it. Anca Gheaus explains different ideas about what is right and fair when someone carries a baby for another person. The book shows different opinions and helps readers think about this topic. It helps readers learn about ethics and important life decisions.

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Table of Contents

Introduction, Anca Gheaus and Christine Straehle

• Surrogacy defined
• Surrogacy and The Law
• Ethical Worries Surrounding Surrogacy
• The Book

Part One:

Defending Surrogacy as Reproductive Labour, Christine Straehle

• Introduction
• I. Surrogacy and Free Occupational Choice

I.1. Why is freedom of occupational choice important in liberal theory?
I.2. Two Justifications for the Right to Freedom of Occupational Choice

• II. Surrogacy, Autonomy and Individual Agency

II.1. Reasons for Limits: Harm to Self, Harm to Society and Professionalization
II. 2. Surrogacy and the Limits of Freedom of Professional Choice

• III. Surrogacy, Commercialization, Reproduction and Parenting

III.1. Surrogacy as

Commercialization vs Surrogacy as Parenting
III.2. Surrogacy and gendered society
III.3. Surrogacy as Harm to Society: applying market norms to the family sphere

• IV. Surrogacy As Work

IV.1. Professional requirements and justifiable limits
IV. 2. Surrogacy as licensed work

• Conclusion
• Notes

Against Private Surrogacy: A Child-Centered View, Anca Gheaus

• I. Introduction
• II. The intuitive case against surrogacy
• III. Parents, their rights, and the interests of children

III.1. General assumptions
III.2. The right to become a parent
III.3. Parents’ rights and children’s interests
III. 4. Two caveats

• IV. What is surrogacy? Three models

IV.1. The child-trafficking model
IV.2. The privately arranged

adoption model
IV.3. The provision of services and gametes model

• V. Full Surrogacy with intending parents’ gametes

V.1. Child-centered appeals to genetic connections and the right to parent
V.3. Appeals to the gestational connection
V.4. Creatures of attachment: the general impermissibility of surrogacy agreements

• VI. Harm to children? The challenge from the non-identity problem
• VII. Conclusion: a respectful and humane form of surrogacy
• Notes

Part Two

What’s in it for the Baby? – Weighing Children’s and Parents’ Interests in Commercial Surrogacy Agreements – A Reply to Gheaus, Christine Straehle

• I. Introduction
• II. Where we agree: The interests of children
• III. Where we disagree: Relationships
• IV. Where we disagree: the role of the state
• Conclusion
• Notes

Women and Children First – A Reply to Straehle, Anca Gheaus

• I. Introduction
• II. Where we agree: gestating for another
• III. Where we disagree: the women
• IV. Where we disagree: the children
• V. Is Straehle’s hybrid defence of surrogacy stable?
• Conclusions

Notes
Index